Enhanced Efficiencies of Perovskite Solar Cells by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into the Hole Transport Layer
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental Setup
2.1. Materials
2.2. Device Fabrication
2.3. Measurements and Characterization
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
References
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Samples | AgNW Solution (wt%) | Voc (V) | Jsc (mA·cm−2) | FF (%) | η (%) | R1 (Ω) | R2 (kΩ) | R3 (kΩ) |
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PVSC-0 | 0 | 0.89 | 19.6 | 65.4 | 11.4 | 7.6 | 11.6 | 5.8 |
PVSC-1 | 0.17 | 0.86 | 20.4 | 73.0 | 12.9 | 5.9 | 1.6 | 3.3 |
PVSC-2 | 0.51 | 0.88 | 24.3 | 67.0 | 14.3 | 10.2 | 1.0 | 7.4 |
PVSC-3 | 0.85 | 0.84 | 22.2 | 64.9 | 12.1 | 10.9 | 2.1 | 3.0 |
Samples | AgNW Solution (wt%) | Number of Extra PEDOT:PSS Layers | Voc (V) | Jsc (mA·cm-2) | FF (%) | η (%) | R1 (Ω) | R2 (Ω) | R3 (kΩ) |
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PVSC-3-1L | 0.85 | 1 | 0.97 | 21.8 | 51.5 | 13.0 | 18.1 | 514.8 | 4.6 |
PVSC-3-2L | 0.85 | 2 | 0.93 | 19.1 | 51.4 | 9.1 | 20.4 | 567.9 | 2.1 |
PVSC-3-3L | 0.85 | 3 | 0.92 | 19.4 | 54.5 | 9.8 | 113.7 | 562.5 | 1.9 |
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Cheng, C.-J.; Balamurugan, R.; Liu, B.-T. Enhanced Efficiencies of Perovskite Solar Cells by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into the Hole Transport Layer. Micromachines 2019, 10, 682. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi10100682
Cheng C-J, Balamurugan R, Liu B-T. Enhanced Efficiencies of Perovskite Solar Cells by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into the Hole Transport Layer. Micromachines. 2019; 10(10):682. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi10100682
Chicago/Turabian StyleCheng, Chien-Jui, Rathinam Balamurugan, and Bo-Tau Liu. 2019. "Enhanced Efficiencies of Perovskite Solar Cells by Incorporating Silver Nanowires into the Hole Transport Layer" Micromachines 10, no. 10: 682. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi10100682